Monday, 02 August 2010
By: Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
Americans dropped about 285 million cluster bombs on Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos, according to the Pentagon.(Photo:AP)
Cambodia has not yet signed a cluster munition ban that went into effect Sunday. Thirty-seven countries have ratified the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions.
“As a heavily cluster-bombed country, we are willing to become a party to the convention,” Prak Sokun, a secretary of state for the Council of Minister, told VOA Khmer last week. “But we have to consider thoroughly any impact to our national security.”
The cluster munition convention bans the production, use, transport or stockpiling of cluster munitions.
It was opened to states for signatures in 2008 in Oslo, Norway.
“Countries like Thailand and Vietnam have not signed it either,” said Prak Sokun, who is an adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen on landmine issues.
“As a heavily cluster-bombed country, we are willing to become a party to the convention,” Prak Sokun, a secretary of state for the Council of Minister, told VOA Khmer last week. “But we have to consider thoroughly any impact to our national security.”
The cluster munition convention bans the production, use, transport or stockpiling of cluster munitions.
It was opened to states for signatures in 2008 in Oslo, Norway.
“Countries like Thailand and Vietnam have not signed it either,” said Prak Sokun, who is an adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen on landmine issues.
Do you know how many of those cluster bombs fell on Cambodia ?
ReplyDeleteI have recently returned from Cambodia ..your country is beautiful but what makes it so special are the people. I was deeply moved by what I saw and heard and shocked by my ignorance. So I made a video to tell friends about Cambodia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbv0BTzF4Sg&feature=youtu.be..
since i returned I have been researching Cambodia and I have relised that my video though well meaning is rather naive and left a lot out. Please can I have a copy of the above picture for my next video to get home the message of land mines
Do you know how many of those cluster bombs fell on Cambodia ?
ReplyDeleteI have recently returned from Cambodia ..your country is beautiful but what makes it so special are the people. I was deeply moved by what I saw and heard and shocked by my ignorance. So I made a video to tell friends about Cambodia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbv0BTzF4Sg&feature=youtu.be..
since i returned I have been researching Cambodia and I have relised that my video though well meaning is rather naive and left a lot out. Please can I have a copy of the above picture for my next video to get home the message of land mines